The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-04

matters of Minor atotHcat Ia ana About
tho CITY. jl{J yGl
Tnr Grand this evening-"My Aun.
Bridget"
OpfeA Horsr this oyenine@M Mayo as
Dairy Crockett
Tng day turn OF tho Wheeling steel
plant makes about 1917 tons OF Hseel and
tho night turn l0i tons.
A STRONG stone vault 10 being construct.
ed In The room In the Mcclure Horee
block to DO occupied by the Dollar Savings
Bank. II
TIE room on Twelfth ptreet in tho Nc.
Lur0 House, formerly occupied by Fer.
rell's news depot, Ia being fitted up rs O
laly'a waiting room for the hotel.
A LARGE force OF Pittsburgh bricklaYers
commenced work yesterdayion the 70.
| Gently finished foundations OF the new
Riverside tube works at Banwood.S X :
THE rivpr is still falling at this point.
The marks last evening indicated q depth
In tho channel Of ID feet. At Pittsburgh
there Is 8 feet, and tho river 10 nlowly
falling.
CLERK Hook yesterday admitted 10 70.
cord n deed made Auguat 20, 1886, by
James Todd AMI vile to James Buchanan.
in consideration OF SIPS, Tor 9 acres and .
roods Of land.
TIE resldcn.a OF Fourteenth street easl
OF Woods are circulating a petition asking
Council to have that portion of the street
paved, instead OF stopping the improve
mont at Woods.
TIE numerous friends Of Mr.. G. A.
Stuckey, the popular and efficient letter.
carrier, will regret to learn that be Wal
obliged to ntep down and out yesterday,
He wps the last Republican carrier that
wss dropped"
TuE striking painters arc still out, and
are quito firm In their demand. Only two
painters refused to come out. AS yot nc
offers Of a compromise have bsen made,
and tho Btrikers say that the report that
they will agree to q compromise, is q false
ono. .l'J
In THE police court Yesterday morning
James Cahill waB ueds220A md costa for dis
orderly conduct the night before. George
Plunkett was fined So and costs. Frank
Wright, OF Fairinont, who wss fined for
Drunkenness the morning before, was
again arraigned on the SAINT charge and
fined 81 and coats.
A SOMEWHAT novel entertainment will
be given In tho Chapliue street rink this
evening, consisting OF q very fine pro.
gramme, which will be rendered by the
bsst talent in the city, to be followed by q
general old.iashioned bean bake, to DO
given under the auspicea OF the Baptist
Church, OF this city.
TIE high wind storm that set in on Sat-
urday alta. N. with snow, and changed
to rain during tho day, and subsequently
to hard freezing OF the ground at night,
has been thought by many TO be very dis
astrous to the wheat, that was doing finely,
the ground being thoroughly saturated
with water at the time.
THE elegant stern vince! packet, Louis
A. Shirley, is due to-day from Cincinnati,
for which point sha will leave tomorrow
afternoon at 8 o'clock. Her new COM
mnuder, Captain Amos Davis, is on deck
this trip. Captain Davis Is an old.time
river mun, and with forty years ex-
perioace, and lie will make the boat more
populSr than ever. He Is thoroughly
competent and a very clever and genial
gentleman.
TIE Petroleum Age does no! consider
the Eureka, W. Va, oil field q bonanza
and bages its opinion on iacts from their
correspondent Mt that place. It Gays OF
wells that were drilling February: can
these welln have passed the point where
tao Boss 4 Brown No. l got it's oil and
found nothing. Neither was any oil dis
covered in the M%acksburg sand. The
Boas & Brown No. l ia said TO find It's oil
in a shaie rock and has little significance
as an indicator for q new field, and if oil
is found hero it must come from the deep.
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